Addressing behavioral outcomes in Connecticut's child care centers: An evaluation of the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership (ECCP)
Findings from an evaluation of the first year of the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership (ECCP), a system of early childhood mental health consultation in Connecticut, with a focus on services provided to children and the training and development of early childhood professionals
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An analysis of the child and adult care food program in child care centers
An analysis of the characteristics of three types of child care centers: centers that choose to participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), centers that are eligible for CACFP but do not participate, and centers that are not eligible for CACFP, focusing on a center’s propensity to participate in CACFP conditional on being eligible
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Building partnerships between Early Head Start grantees and family child care providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care project: Final report
An evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) for Family Child Care, a project to support partnerships between EHS grantees and family child care providers, that examines the characteristics of participating grantees and providers, the implementation, types, and sustainability of the partnerships, and lessons learned, based on project administrative data, interviews with 13 partnership teams, descriptive quality indicators and Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, and project documents
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Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care
A report presenting findings from a study on informal child care with a focus on the use of this care by low income families in Connecticut
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Child care health consultation: The Connecticut experience
A survey-based study of Connecticut child care center directors and their health consultants to determine the impact of the child care health consultation programs and the experiences of the child care centers with the programs
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Child care health consultation initiatives: A status report
A study profiling child care health consultant initiatives in the states and territories and examining factors associated with successfully implementing and sustaining these initiatives
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Child care: States increased spending on low-income families
A study of how states spend child care funds made available through Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) and the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and how they provide child care subsidies to eligible families.
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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group
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Childhood social environment and Hodgkin's lymphoma: New findings from a population-based case-control study
A study examining the potential relationship between childhood social environments and incidence of Hodgkin's lymphoma
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Collaborative agents in the Discovery Initiative as of mid-2007
An inquiry into the role of collaborating organizations in the Discovery Initiative in Connecticut, an initiative to improve the quality and supply of early childhood services, promote coordination in children’s transition to school, and to improve children’s socioemotional outcomes and academic performance
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Collaborative groups, collaborative chairs, and community coordinators in the Discovery Initiative as of mid-2007
An examination of the roles and activities of community collaborative groups and their participants in Discovery, a Connecticut initiative to build the capacity of communities and state advocacy organizations to influence early childhood policy and practice, based on 45 interviews with community collaborative group representatives
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Collective management of early childhood programs: Approaches that aim to maximize efficiency, help improve quality and stabilize the industry
A report presenting a catalog of collective management approaches currently used by child care services across the United States
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Community use of capacity-building supports as of mid-2007
An examination of the influence of the capacity building approach of the Discovery Initiative in Connecticut on communities' collaboration with policymakers and engagement of parents
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Comprehensive school reform: An implementation study of preschool programs in elementary schools
A discussion of the implementation of preschool programs in elementary schools, based on information gathered from focus group interviews with 42 preschool and kindergarten teachers and 53 parents from 10 schools in 5 states
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The Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF)/Head Start partnership: 2007-2010 project evaluation
An examination of efforts between 2007 and 2010 of Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) area offices and Head Start programs to build trust and partnerships, maintain on-going collaboration, and improve services to families, based on quarterly data collected from Head Start and DCF administrators in 6 DCF catchment areas
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The day care program for children in Hartford, Connecticut
A study of a project in Hartford, Connecticut designed to keep children from delinquency by means of child care and recreational supervision
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A descriptive study of the Head Start Health Component: Vol. II. Technical report
Descriptive findings from a study of the Head Start Health Component, using child health records and standard data from the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR), plus observations and interviews with parents and staff, collected during the Spring of 1994 from a sample of 80 Head Start centers
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The Discovery Initiative: 2004-2009: Final summative evaluation report
An evaluation of Discovery, a Connecticut initiative to build the capacity of communities and state advocacy organizations to influence early childhood policy and practice, that examines initiative outcomes related to community and state collaborative infrastructure and to parent and stakeholder engagement, and that also explores initiative contributions to community and state policies and practices and to public support for early childhood issues, based on data from multiple sources, including Discovery staff, grantees, and stakeholders, as well as initiative documents, events, and activities
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Discovery initiative contributions to state policy change
An examination of the influence of Discovery, a Connecticut initiative to build the capacity of communities and state advocacy organizations to influence early childhood policy and practice, on state policy outcomes in Connecticut from 2002 through 2009, with a focus on 2007 to 2009, based on in-depth interviews with policy stakeholders and on an analysis of state legislators' voting patterns on legislation relevant to early childhood in the 2007 and 2009 Connecticut General Assembly legislative sessions
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Early care and education partnerships: State actions and local lessons
An inquiry into the nature and durability of partnerships between early childhood education and care providers and community organizations that support parents’ child care needs
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Early childhood mental health services: Four state case studies
An exploration of state models to address the four components - consultation, professional development, collaboration, and financing - of comprehensive early childhood mental health (ECMH) systems, based on case studies of service delivery systems in Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois
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Early childhood programs: Parent education and income best predict participation
A report on the demographic factors of children that best predict preschool participation
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An evidence based approach to estimating the national and state-by-state costs of an integrated prek-3rd education program
A study of the national and state costs of providing universal, high-quality prekindergarten through third grade education, derived from an evidence-based model for identifying the components and estimating the costs of high-quality prekindergarten through third grade education in a prototypical elementary school
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Expanding access to Early Head Start: State initiatives for infants & toddlers at risk
A study of state efforts to expand and enhance Early Head Start services, based on interviews with Head Start-state collaboration administrators in 23 states
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A fragile foundation: State child care assistance policies
A report on state-level child care assistance policies and changes that have occurred between 1995 and 2001, examining the impact of policies on families' access to care and child care choices.
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